Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/10/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]My favorite quote from either Winogrand or Freidlander is: " I photograph things to see what things look like photographed" when asked why he was a photographer. I just joined a photo club and plan on appropriating this phrase for my artistic statement - because I find artistic statements odious, never read them ( let the photo speak for itself). No offense to those who like artists statements. ernie nitka George Lottermoser wrote: > ..Photography is a response that has to do with the momentary > recognition of things. Suddenly you're alive. A minute later there was > nothing there. I just watched it evaporate. You look one moment and > there's everything, next moment it's gone. Photography is very > philosophical. - Joel Meyerowitz > > All photography is propaganda. - Martin Parr > > Photography is universal language; it doesn't need translation. Its > collective memory is a mirror in which our society continually > observes itself... - Sebastiao Salgado > > Black and white photography is a perfect lie. We must not let colour > destroy this image. - Patrick Summerfield > > Documentary photography is the presentation or representation of > actual fact in a way that makes it credible and vivid to an audience > at the time. - David Hurn > > For me photography is a form of prayer. - Don Doll > > Great photography is always on the edge of failure. - Garry Winogrand > > Every photograph is a battle of form versus content. - Garry Winogrand > > the true business of photography is to capture a bit of reality > (whatever that is) on film... if, later, the reality means something > to someone else, so much the better. - Garry Winogrand > > Regards, > George Lottermoser > george at imagist.com > http://www.imagist.com > http://www.imagist.com/blog > http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist > > On Oct 23, 2009, at 4:25 AM, Steve Unsworth wrote: > >> "It's a one eyed man looking through a hole" David Hockney >> >> Steve >> >> >> On 22/10/09 22:04, "Sonny Carter" <sonc.hegr at gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> "Photography is a higher form of pointing" - Johnny Deadman >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >